What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond? Can such faith save him?

and one of you says to them, "I wish you well; keep yourselves warm and well fed," and yet you do not give them what they need; what is the use of that?

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.

If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

Remember that we call those blessed who endured what they did. You have also heard of Job's patient endurance, and have seen the issue of the Lord's dealings with him--how full of tenderness and pity the Lord is.